Word: foreign
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...there were also some pleasant things coming before the President on his return to Washington. Although the U.S. remained discreetly silent about its preferences in the British elections, the President could hardly have been less than delighted at the sweeping victory of his old friend Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS). And perhaps the most satisfying event of the week was a visit from another friend of the U.S., Mexico's President López Mateos (see HEMISPHERE). Last year, after returning from his tempestuous visit to Latin America, Vice President Nixon recommended that the U.S. distinguish more clearly among...
...School Library has discovered a "loss" of nearly 1500 books after moving a substantial part of the foreign and international law collections into a new wing. "We just don't know where they are," Vaclav Mostecky, assistant librarian, confessed...
...have conspired to help the Conservatives, there remain sound reasons for Macmillan's success. The first is prosperity. With full employment, a stable pound, lowered taxes, increased social services and the healthiest export-import situation in this century, most of England is enjoying unprecedented prosperity. Another helpful issue was foreign affairs. Despite the electoral liability, especially in Scotland, of recent abuses of power in Kenya and Nyasaland, Macmillan's leadership in trying to break the cold war deadlock and get to the summit gave the Conservatives an edge in external affairs...
Dapper Harry Oscar Jasper, 54, is a Berlin-born refugee who started a foreign-currency business in 1936. After serving as a private in the British Army during World War II. Jasper quickly built up a small investment bank, joined forces with another Berlin refugee, a sharp lawyer named Friedrich Grunwald. Operating H. Jasper & Co., the two began to move fast, using the take-over expert's favorite tactic: after acquiring the controlling shares of a company, they would sell off its property, lease it back, use the cash acquired to buy more companies. H. Jasper & Co. gathered...
...such as the International Monetary Fund. Opponents of return to the standard of a quarter of a century ago insist that the U.S. is already as near to a gold standard as necessary, since gold still backs up its currency, and its dollar can be converted into gold by foreign governments and central banks...